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  • $10 on Amazon. Or just a piece of broken spark plug. Anyone who seriously wants to break a car window will have something handy.

    Or maybe thieves are just walking down the street and see a fancy bag on a seat and a rock and just decide to do the deed on a whim and get foiled by tempered glass. ¯(ツ)

  • When my fiancé was shopping for a car a few years ago, I asked the salesperson "so how do you turn off connectivity?" while they were showing off the whiz-bang infotainment systems. Nobody could answer the question, and most didn't understand why anyone would want to turn it off.

  • Likewise breaking a car window is typically harder than breaking a house window.

    All it takes to break a car window is a single tap. There's specific tools available, or someone can just use a shard of ceramic. Shatters completely and instantly.

  • So, disregarding physical brute force (because that lock bypass method will never change), let's say a smart lock today is functionally equivalent to a traditional lock in terms of security. How's that smart lock going to look in 5 years? In 10? When is the manufacturer going to abandon the product and stop providing security updates? It's only a matter of time before whatever firmware it shipped with becomes obsolete. And then it's just one more thing on the list of pwnd devices that unscrupulous actors can access at will. Your friendly neighborhood junkie in search of quick cash might not know the difference, but a list of people that have e-Lock v2.2 would be very lucrative to the types of people that run the current smash and grab operations.

    Soft/firmware obsolescence is a thing with any "smart" device, but it becomes especially egregious when it's built into what are traditionally durable devices like appliances. And even more so when it's something embedded, like a lock, outlet, etc. It becomes "replace that light fixture, or leave that vulnerability on the network." A lock takes that from "someone can waltz into my home network" to "someone can waltz through my front door."

  • Maybe if they dredge deep enough they can keep sea level rise in check. 😐

  • Wait till we discover that in fifty years kids who got Covid are going to have XYZ health issues.

    Which will be blamed on the vaccines because time is a flat circle.

  • In this timeline, the edge is so far gone that it's faded into myth.

  • Gotta give them points for snake oil creativity though. Their nonsense is much more entertaining than hearing "invisible sky wizard did it" as the answer to every question for millennia.

  • wow no one is arguing with me, so they all must agree!

    The same shallow gene pool also likes to spout "All these downvotes must mean I'm right!"

  • "Okay, fine. On three... One... Two... ... ... ... ..."

    four hours later, we are still not sure if they're waiting for the other to blink, have bluescreened, or both

  • That’s $300+ per illegal shift

    ...that they were caught for.

  • Capcom vs SNK 2 ate more of my fighting game hours than any other game, with the possible exception of SF2/Turbo/Super combined. It had everything I could ever want at the time.